Minnesota · Nonprofit
SURGEON VOLUNTEERS
SURGEON VOLUNTEERS (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,071 to it, the largest being BILL & CECILY SUN FOUNDATION ($25,200). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $71k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $170k
What Surgeon Volunteers does
Mission
Organization's mission is to provide medical services to those in need
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provided medical services to those in need
$59,362 spent100% of program spendingProvided medical services to those in need
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $59,362.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $130k to $157k (+21%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of SURGEON VOLUNTEERS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Steven Shu
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $15k → $4k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SURGEON VOLUNTEERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
SURGEON VOLUNTEERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 68% · 2021 68% · 2022 88% · 2023 73% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
SURGEON VOLUNTEERS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
SURGEON VOLUNTEERS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,898 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,898 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like SURGEON VOLUNTEERS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SURGEON VOLUNTEERS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SURGEON VOLUNTEERS?
- SURGEON VOLUNTEERS (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,071 to it, the largest being BILL & CECILY SUN FOUNDATION ($25,200). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SURGEON VOLUNTEERS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $43,071 in grants to SURGEON VOLUNTEERS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SURGEON VOLUNTEERS?
- BILL & CECILY SUN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SURGEON VOLUNTEERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing